I like to amaze (bore) my friends and family while playing bocce. Bocce balls are fun to juggle.

More than some icing on the cake, it's fast becoming essential. I agree that the very talented ruby programmers have made SU a lot more powerful with their plugins, however it doesn't change the fact that SU seems to be moving sideways and not forward.

And I have the visa already but my itinerary has also changed; arriving at 23:54 on the 9th and leaving at 06:30 on the 15th. I'll have a shuttle service when arriving and I guess (unless it's full) that someone could join us. We'll definitely not wait for you Coen!

I just booked one of the special rate rooms at the Avante for June 10, 11, & 12. See you all in CA! -wehby

Where are those Commissions that keep on nailing Microsoft now?!

I know that we are all going to say great , one should hope for something like this to happen but in my oppinion human nature is not like that, Even bad news are good news to most people. This is boring. Bad news sell more newspapers than good news or no news. And those same people are buying the newspapers and watching TV.

That movie really has a hold on you, stinkie!!!

Daniel, You alwayshave a profit margin (my business teacher is smiling), it is anything over your minimum hourly rate you would accept (maybe not tell people but you would accept it). That in turn is your "profit margin". When I do work for a new client I get a percentage up front (one time only) to cover my "costs", that way if he walks on me all he took was the "profit margin". Hopefully you understand this. Scott

that must have taken forever to paint, makes up for it in coolness though

I used to do Gouache renderings. I've just recently been doing more work with watercolors... That would be so fun to do that together!! I'll have to let you know. At this point the budget is tight...

Gee I had expected a posting in the forum about your new SKetchUp 7 news. I didn't realize there was gonna be this whole big e-zine thing happening. Wow Coen. good work. I didn't get a chance to read all of the interviews yet but I did read Aiden's. I really enjoyed it. Lot's of food for thought re SketchUp.

Hai,... Thank's everyone. Thank's for your vote.

Well, this shoots my suggestion in the foot! I do however have hopes for electric cars and before anyone dives in with knock downs, I think it is quite possible, here in Ireland at any rate to produce reasonable amount of wind generated electricity. I knew all this wind that get on the Atlantic West Coast would be good for something And here is the vehicle to use that electrical power http://www.flytheroad.com The Venture One [image: 2M4M_VentureOne.jpg]

This is a perfect example of why I get most of my news from his show. Here's another... http://www.youtube.com/v/aFQFB5YpDZE

I spoke with the Avante people and they have a free shuttle for guests that will run you to the Googleplex and back.

@unknownuser said: Be careful what you ask for John. Good point. I should have asked my wife first. Maybe I'll move to Canada.

Hmm, i got the update, but did not find any news about SU 7.0 ?

milk chocolate my parents' two pekes, Shenwu and Wanli

Well actually the schools don't give away much. They just let you take the course, but if you want credit for it then you need to pay the fee. So instead of fighting the problem headon I was trying to suggest that maybe there might be a way to redirect the forces at work. LEts say Sue had a website called "Magna Cum Laude graduates of the Sue School of Architectural Illustration". So if you are a registered graduate of the course your best work and your CV can be posted in a gallery receiving international attention. So suddenly a lot of people are sneaking into her class. However, low and behold they find they learned something and they are becoming pretty good. Now they have no doubt about their skills, they would like them seen and certified to. Since they did not pay they can not been seen on Sue's architectural rendering site. So they pay for the course retroactively and now they are part of a respected gallery/showplace. I am just suggesting there might be more to gain from channeling human nature than fighting it head on. Not sure of the validity, but am just trying to float a concept. When I hit a brick wall I always like to back off and think about more productive approaches and study elegant solutions to similar problems.